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glabrous ; sometimes set with woolly shag on one or both surfaces, 
especially when young ; or sometimes they have ovate pointed, 
white scales along the mid-rib on the under surface only. Fertile 
pinnae four to five inches long, two to three lines broad, pointed, 
flat on the upper surface, and with a marginal line extending 
beyond the indusium, which is membranaceous and much torn, or 
with each piece fringed. Veins conspicuous. 
Sometimes the pinnae of the barren frond are auricled at the 
base, and Kunze mentions a variety in which the pinnae are cut 
toward the point. 
Lomaria procera. Sprengel ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 179. 
Osmunda capensis. Linn. Sp. 7760 (not Presl.). 
Onoclea capensis. Thunb. Prod. 1 7 1 ; flora cap. 731. 
Lomaria capensis. Willd.; Kunze, Linnsea, 10.505 ; Pappe and Rawson, 
27. 
Blechnum capense. Schl. Adum. 34, tab. 18. 
Tropics and southward ; widely spread ; often growing in full 
sunshine. 
West. — Below Table and Devil’s Mountains, Paradise, Paarlberg, &c. 
East. — Van Staaden’s River (Browning), Albany, Bedford, &c. 
Kaff. — Frequent by streams in bush or above it, not under 3000 feet. 
Natal. — Many places in the midlands. 
63. Lomaria Boryana. Willd. 
Plate LVIII. a. Plant, much reduced, b. Barren frond, reduced, 
c. Scale from crown, d. Fertile frond reduced, e. Fertile pinna, nat. size. 
Stem stout, tree-like, erect, two to three feet long, three to 
nine inches diameter, densely clothed with linear, dark brown 
scales, one to two inches long, half-line broad. Fronds simply 
pinnate, thick and coriaceous, abundant, the barren fronds more 
or less spreading ; the fertile produced annually in the centre and 
more upright in habit. Barren fronds one to three feet long, six 
to nine inches broad at the middle, ovate-lanceolate, and generally 
with shorter pinnae toward the base; glabrous on the upper 
surface except when young, but with scattered, brown, downy 
